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GB-110/JES/COR/14/72 from James Edward Smith, London, to Edmund Davall, Orbe, Canton de Berne, [Switzerland] (26 September 1794)
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Note by Davall letter received 24 October [1794].
Lectured in Norwich for three months "to a crowded & admiring audience [...] diffusing a taste for our beloved study". Returned to London to work on "English Botany" before seeing off family in Norwich returning to India [the Kindersleys]. Thanks Davall for packet, glad he likes his "Tour". Requests seeds of the 'Verbascum' and 'Digitalis', latter appears to be that described from Tournefort's oriental herbarium. News of botanists: letter from [Adam] Afzelius in Sierra Leone, François [Borone] in the Archipeligo with [John] Sibthorp, and Broussonet has taken refuge in Spain and is coming to England. Joseph Trapp's translation of "Life of Linnaeus" "odd, amusing, ridiculous, quackish, bombastic, [and] German".
| Note type | Note |
|---|---|
| UNSPECIFIED | Dawson, W R, (1934). "Catalogue of the manuscripts in the Library of The Linnean Society - Part I. The Smith papers: The correspondence and miscellaneous papers of Sir James Edward Smith", London: Linnean Society. |
| UNSPECIFIED | For Davall's letter of 22 July 1794, to which this is a reply, see JES/COR/14/71. Smith, J E, and Sowerby, J, (1790-1814). "English Botany" London. Smith, J E, (1793). "A sketch of a tour on the Continent in the years 1786 and 1787" London. |
